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Cloudability pros and cons

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3.8 out of 5

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PROS

Cloudability provides enhanced visibility and transparency, enabling leadership teams to receive more comprehensive information.
Its group and view functionalities stand out, allowing for the creation of tailored dashboards and separation of data for individual users.
The rightsizing recommendations and dashboards are vital for cost reduction, particularly for tracking reserved instance spending and utilization.
The tool offers customizable alerts and tagging features that aid in managing budgets and optimizing cloud utilization.
Cloudability effectively enhances cost observability, driving better spending decisions and optimizing cloud expenditure.

CONS

Technical support is often slow, as team members are stretched across multiple customers.
The API lacks proper documentation, making it difficult for developers to automate processes.
Users desire enhanced analytics features, like linear regression, for better budgeting and planning.
Improvements are needed in data collection from cloud providers and resource support.
Integration for complex environments and automation features require enhancement.
 

Cloudability Pros review quotes

NM
Infrastructure Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Dec 11, 2018
It provides us visibility, then we can turn around and can give the leadership team more information, which we could not previously give them.
DC
Senior Software Engineer at Ancestry.com
Dec 11, 2018
The sizing recommendation will look, and say, "You are only using this at 80%," then recommend a better fit for you.
Solution49de - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 11, 2018
Each user can have their own dashboard that they want to consume. Instead of having to share one dashboard for multiple users, you can create individual views for each user to view, and that view will contain only their own accounts, which allows for separation of data.
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CloudArc65b9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 11, 2018
It has already given us insight into how to optimize. So, we are now ramping up steadily its usage.
it_user433491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect, Oracle ACE, Oracle DBA at Pythian
Jan 14, 2019
Transparency and visibility are the key features.
HS
Works at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 22, 2021
The pricing isn't too expensive.
AK
Software Developer II at CSG
Nov 3, 2023
One of the standout features of the solution is its groups and views functionality. The solution is highly-stable. The solution is highly-scalable. The customer support is good. They can be easily contacted. The initial setup is straightforward. It's an excellent tool, especially when dealing with multiple clouds. It streamlines the process, eliminating the need to check each cloud individually.
Jerry J - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at Deloitte
Nov 3, 2023
We use the product to get a detailed level of transparency on the cloud strengths.
reviewer2310048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect- Cloud/Automation at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 15, 2023
The most valuable feature of the solution is its ability to create reports and dashboards.
Ana Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project & FinOps Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 24, 2023
The tool helps us to resize on AWS correctly.
 

Cloudability Cons review quotes

NM
Infrastructure Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Dec 11, 2018
We have dealt with a few technical support people where we ask for one thing and they might not deliver straightaway. It seems like they are a stretched across multiple customers.
DC
Senior Software Engineer at Ancestry.com
Dec 11, 2018
We would like them to have a linear regression, so we can be predictive for budgets, allocations, and the year's follow ups. We also want to have a longer window of analytics with better certainty that our workload will fit the model, not just in a two week window.
Solution49de - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 11, 2018
The API is not well-documented. It is not straightforward and difficult to use. This needs to be improved, as it is very difficult for our developers to develop automation around it.
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CloudArc65b9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 11, 2018
There is always room for improvement in education and training. We are not that mature in terms of our automation. It could help us identify where we could optimize in terms of build.
it_user433491 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Architect, Oracle ACE, Oracle DBA at Pythian
Jan 14, 2019
The dashboard needs to include more graphs per team to show what individual teams are spending in a given time period.
HS
Works at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Jan 22, 2021
Right now, what we're doing is we are manually putting the data in it, which is something which we don't like about Cloudability.
AK
Software Developer II at CSG
Nov 3, 2023
I would like the API functionality to improve. The update time after uploading data could also be improved.
Jerry J - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at Deloitte
Nov 3, 2023
Cloudability needs to focus on more cloud providers.
reviewer2310048 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect- Cloud/Automation at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 15, 2023
In general, I feel Cloudability wasn't able to support many resources.
Ana Marques - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Project & FinOps Analyst at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 24, 2023
Cloudability needs to improve on data collection from cloud sources.